A hybrid multilevel inverter with both staircase and PWM switching schemes

2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4364-4367

  Sepahvand, Hossein ^a   Khazraei, Mostafa ^a   Ferdowsi, Mehdi ^a   Corzine, Keith ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fundamental switching; H bridge cell; Inverter; Multilevel inverter; Pulse width modulation

Indexed keywords

DC VOLTAGE; DIODE-CLAMPED; FIRING ANGLE; FUNDAMENTAL SWITCHING; H-BRIDGE CELL; H-BRIDGE CELLS; HYBRID MULTILEVEL INVERTER; INVERTER; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LEVEL CONVERTER; MODULATION METHODS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OUTPUT PHASE; OUTPUT WAVEFORM; PWM SWITCHING; SIMULATION RESULT; SINUSOIDAL OUTPUT; SWITCHING METHODS; SWITCHING PATTERNS; THREE-LEVEL;

COUNTING CIRCUITS; ENERGY CONVERSION; MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; STAIRS; SWITCHING; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 78650138884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2010.5618451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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